If one measures lying by quantity of people misled, their relative importance as decision-makers and influencers and gravity of the deception, then the NYT is the biggest liar of them all and their track record on Russia over the past couple of years since the Ukraine crisis got going has been nothing less than extraordinary. Our analyst Jacob Dreizin digs into this week’s juicy offering.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. – V.I. Lenin

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What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.